Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of State Index / Organizations Transcripts Martin Dempsey ...military support, actually. The State Department had a certain set of objectives and ... ...way, I can say, to achieve the State Department 's objectives, they had to have ... ...I was sitting with the president in the State Department at a meeting of African leaders. He ha... Kenneth Roth ...level within the White House or the State Department or the Pentagon, where relevant, or th... Terry Szuplat ...back, and he gives a big speech at the State Department on what our policy is. These became ... William McRaven ...a VTC. So you'd bring in CIA and State Department and FBI in this case, and then, o... ...joint staff was part of it, always the State Department and the CIA and the usual interagenc... ...with the CIA. Spend time with the State Department and foreign service officers. I ha... James Jones ...policy, the Defense Department, the State Department , how are you building up thos... ...had built a little empire over at the State Department where there was really at odds with th... ...Ellen Tauscher, who was over at the State Department , and there were times when th... ...mal-organized, particularly in the State Department , to do too many things at once. If yo... ...many things at once. If you look at the State Department , and you look at the Secretary o... ...strategic and operational focus of the State Department is here in Washington. I believe tha... ...the military unified commands and the State Department and use a regional focus to show tha... ...some twenty-seven-year-old over at the State Department who sends talking points out to th... ...to be too harsh here, but I think the State Department , if we're going to deal with China, w... ...in her memoir about her time at the State Department talks about forward-deployed diplomac... ...colocating in the higher reaches of the State Department . I had forgotten just what a curiou... ...her basically bring everybody into the State Department . We talked in our previou... ...now Secretary Clinton's running the State Department . Was there a division of labor i... ...created an entire empire over at the State Department and was not very cooperative in term... ...the Clinton team and staff at the State Department and the Obama team at the White Hous... ...of Israel. I don't recall that the State Department was undermining or opposing what th... ...that maybe added to this sense of the State Department and the White House being—not just tha... Show more... Harold Hongju Koh ...years, from 2009 to 2013, Mr. Koh was State Department legal adviser. This came in the mids... ...at the Justice Department, at the State Department , or maybe it was outside government... ...with the legal adviser's office at the State Department . In other words, there'd be thes... ...me—and then on the other side, from the State Department , would be all kinds of people. So ... ...I actually physically worked in the State Department space. But at the time, I thought, Gee... ...around 2007, 2008—before you became State Department legal adviser. The story that end... ...like to be legal adviser of the State Department .” He sounded surprised. And he said... ...the Obama administration. And I was the State Department representative. It was abandoned agai... ...And over to the White House from the State Department is about five minutes. And I'm jus... ...days ago, the Biden administration's State Department spokesman announced we're going t... ...to you, where—as a matter of what the State Department , what the Obama administration saw a... ...speech. And my advisor friend at the State Department legal adviser's office gave me a bunc... ...interagency. You were representing the State Department , but also—thinking that dron... ...lawyers, the general councils of the State Department —that's in the Defense Department—CI... ...said, “Well, we got a call from the State Department . They said Hillary said, ‘Go.' An... Show more... Naureen Shah ...House–level conversations. I was having State Department –level conversations with peopl... ...found those points of contact in the State Department that you said you were meeting wit... ...Stephen Pomper, who had gone into the State Department , and Stephen Pomper ended up bein... ...Council. But at the time, he was at the State Department , and somehow he knew my boss, Pete... Ben Rhodes ...What they do, they share it with the State Department . Then I remember when we got on th... ...have expected based on the campaign? State Department , Intelligence, different personalitie... ...Then I emailed over to someone at the State Department : “Hey, I'm hearing no news. What ar... ...side of it. What role did the State Department play? Hillary Clinton, of course, bu... ...Campbell and Jake Sullivan from the State Department and Daniel Russel from the NSC came t... ...square.” At the recommendation of the State Department , he sent Frank Wisner as his envoy t... ...after that, Obama gives a speech at the State Department in late May, which, in my reading o... ...had to be—we gave this speech at the State Department to signal that we do this throug... ...the Arab Spring was that speech at the State Department , in terms of the US being actuall... ...to the president. The people at the State Department won't want to touch this, because o... ...to Congress by the White House, State Department , and pretty much everyone involved i... ...campaign against Jen Psaki, who was the State Department spokeswoman at the time. Just crass... ...a whole Global Engagement Center at the State Department to combat Russian disinformation. W... ...that. They were working with the State Department . I think they were working with DR... ...Rights, and Labor], the bureau of the State Department that deals with democracy and huma... ...of spies around him. Or he'd go to the State Department and meet with the ambassadors of al... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the East Wing East Wing go to the Science Science go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the Russia Russia